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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The new series was masterminded by Chanticleer founder Paul Steiner, who was lauded on his death 19 years later for his “brilliant idea of creating bird guides with photographs” and organizing them visually. Yellow Wood-Warbler Plate from National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds, Eastern Region, rev.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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The April arrival of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition was a supremely happy moment in a very difficult, sad month. A companion regional guide, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America was published in 1941; its fifth edition will be coming out in early September.

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Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America and of Northeastern North America: A Review of Two Field Guides

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Here in New York City, May is a magic time for birders as the migration floodgates open. To celebrate spring migration, I usually review an exciting new bird book. Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America. There are over 11,000 species of moths in North America.

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The Birds That Audubon Missed: A Book Review

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It’s a decidedly different direction for the author of Kingbird Highway (1997), Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America (2005), and A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration (2019), to cite just three of his books, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed, underlined with energy, and am still thinking about.

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Birders Should Attend the People’s Climate March

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Just in North America north of the Rio Grande! And, for those of you who live in or near New York City or are visiting here this coming weekend, we are hosting what is undoubtedly going to be the largest mass action about climate change in history. It will be family friendly and it is well organized.

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Arrowood Farm Brewery: Bramble Farmhouse on Raspberries

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From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Our featured beer this week is Bramble, a dry-hopped farmhouse ale from the Arrowood Farm Brewery of Accord, New York, made with – as the name suggests – raspberries. The Robin, No. Louis, Missouri (early 20th century).

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**. They’re just like us–they talk with their hands (er, wings) and their feet and some are even crafty!” And, that’s it.